Processed Foods are not real food
Edgar Hernandez
Professor Brian Goldenberg
CMST 2060 # 45
Sep-30-2012
Thesis: Processed foods aren’t real food.
Human beings can never be 100% sure about everything ‘We just know that we don’t know’. There is one thing we do need to at least be very sure of and it is: What am I eating right now is it food or is just chemicals? Specifically talking about junk and preserved foods. Processed foods are not real food! It is just a magic that took place because of food technological advantage. A clear example is the story of my sister: She is a taekwondo black belt that represented Panama and she always has to make a specific weight for the competitions. For many competitions she had to loose like 10 pounds in two weeks. It was very hardcore and lots of suffering. She was so freaked out that she would even eat healthy house food because she didn’t trust it. She only trusted like those preserved Lean cuisine because of the content of the calories and stuff. She did this for many months to always reach her weight before competitions. She eventually got fat while eating regular food and losing weight was harder. The nutritionist at the end told her that her metabolism got slower for sacrificing meals and just eating fake food.
So why we eat them? It’s CHEAP, fast and easy to get and unfortunately it tastes good. A. In modern times we favor factory and industrial processing, which kills the nutrients in food rather than increasing them, and makes our food more difficult to digest. Industrial processing also depends upon products that have a negative impact on our health, such as sugar, white flour, processed and hydrogenated oils, additives, synthetic vitamins and an extrusion processing of grains. These are the tools of the food processing industry.( "The Dirty Secrets of Food Processing. Strong Stomach Required.")
B. We see some damages but we don’t realize them since we are dumb. Many people, particularly children, cannot tolerate the stuff we call milk.
Professor Brian Goldenberg
CMST 2060 # 45
Sep-30-2012
Thesis: Processed foods aren’t real food.
Human beings can never be 100% sure about everything ‘We just know that we don’t know’. There is one thing we do need to at least be very sure of and it is: What am I eating right now is it food or is just chemicals? Specifically talking about junk and preserved foods. Processed foods are not real food! It is just a magic that took place because of food technological advantage. A clear example is the story of my sister: She is a taekwondo black belt that represented Panama and she always has to make a specific weight for the competitions. For many competitions she had to loose like 10 pounds in two weeks. It was very hardcore and lots of suffering. She was so freaked out that she would even eat healthy house food because she didn’t trust it. She only trusted like those preserved Lean cuisine because of the content of the calories and stuff. She did this for many months to always reach her weight before competitions. She eventually got fat while eating regular food and losing weight was harder. The nutritionist at the end told her that her metabolism got slower for sacrificing meals and just eating fake food.
So why we eat them? It’s CHEAP, fast and easy to get and unfortunately it tastes good. A. In modern times we favor factory and industrial processing, which kills the nutrients in food rather than increasing them, and makes our food more difficult to digest. Industrial processing also depends upon products that have a negative impact on our health, such as sugar, white flour, processed and hydrogenated oils, additives, synthetic vitamins and an extrusion processing of grains. These are the tools of the food processing industry.( "The Dirty Secrets of Food Processing. Strong Stomach Required.")
B. We see some damages but we don’t realize them since we are dumb. Many people, particularly children, cannot tolerate the stuff we call milk.
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